Thriller Zone: From the Mental Hospital to the Ghostly World

"Department store"...

The name of the organization startled Chen Ji.

The post he had seen on the [Yuhe] forum flashed through his mind instantly.

That post had over 7000 views but not a single reply.

Beware of thieves!

Based on this, the poster "Manager Little Squirrel" should be referring to the "department store".

This post was published in 2014...

Has the organization Tang Qin belongs to been operating for this long?

Chen Ji seemed to be deep in thought. After seeing that post, he, Fei'er, and Du Tingfeng had discussed it and put forward many guesses.

No one expected that the name of this organization would be so...ordinary.

That's perfectly normal.

However, it is also reasonable.

Collecting all sorts of strange objects from various places, perhaps exchanging them, perhaps selling them—isn't that just like running a "department store"?

"Any other questions?"

Seeing that Chen Ji hadn't written anything more, Xu Sandao struggled to his feet.

"I have other things to take care of. If there are no other problems, I'll be going now."

Chen Ji raised his hand to stop him.

Then, the ballpoint pen danced rapidly in Chen Ji's hand, adding a sentence to the business card:

Is that doll yours?

"Want to know how we operate?" Xu Sandao smiled knowingly.

He took out the dirty rag doll and showed it to Chen Ji:

"This is company property, but I will hold it for the long term."

This statement implies a great deal of information.

The company sustains its operations by temporarily lending strange objects to its employees.

After all, strange creatures are rare, and if you enter the realm alone and are unlucky, you may not be able to get even one.

Chen Ji didn't ask how the company could guarantee the return of the strange object, but instead wrote down another sentence.

His handwriting was small and dense, but it almost filled up the blank space on the business card.

【May I take a look at it】

I haven't seen many strange creatures.

"Okay."

Xu Sandao said nonchalantly, handing the rag doll to Chen Ji.

He then kindly offered a suggestion:

"Don't even think about using it on me. I'll only turn into a doll for ten minutes, but you'll be stupid for half an hour."

Chen Ji didn't speak, but quietly took the doll, held it up, and examined it carefully.

The pen moved slightly in his pocket.

A moment later, Chen Ji returned the rag doll to Xu Sandao and waved his hand.

Goodbye.

"Remember to contact me."

Xu Sandao nodded and turned to walk towards the Domain River.

In the blink of an eye, his figure disappeared into the water in mid-air.

Chen Ji sat on the ground, and finally took out his pen with his left hand, which had been in his pocket.

His hands were covered in writing!

【^^】

I told you this would work, right?

Bring it here, bring it here.

Hurry up, I'm about to go into hibernation.

"No hurries."

Chen Ji smiled and shook his head, writing on his leg.

"It's not healed yet."

He stayed in the same spot for another minute before crawling to the other side of the Yuhe River outlet.

The blurry gray area behind it is now fully visible...

The giant macaque, over ten meters tall, that had been sitting there so peacefully, has completely vanished...

There was only one monkey doll, about ten centimeters long, on the ground!

After Xu Sandao left, the giant macaque slowly shrank until it became completely doll-like.

The macaque's originally emotionless, slightly sinister brown eyes have now turned into two hard, button-like eyes.

On his stomach, amidst the filthy, cheap fur, a gaping wound was faintly visible.

The pen had already turned gray.

Let's go back to the moment when Chen Ji was holding the rag doll.

He finally used the "fate-altering ability" that could only be used once and had never been used in this domain before!

And change their fate for the next ten minutes to:

Chen Ji held the "doll" up to a height where he could see the macaque and observed it carefully.

The "doll" spotted a macaque.

[Because during the teleportation game, the "doll" had its identity impersonated.]

Therefore, it is extremely angry with the guide of this domain.

Therefore, it decided to punish the guide, the macaque.

The result was that the "doll" activated its "turn-the-doll" ability on the macaque.

The last two sentences were automatically added by the pen.

[Because the "doll" is more capable than the current "macaque," and the "doll" possesses independent consciousness.]

Therefore, all of this makes sense.

gone.

A faint smile appeared on Chen Ji's face as he grabbed the monkey doll by the tail and jumped into the Domain River.

If you're brave enough, you can even bring a giant monkey home!

And just as the monkey doll was being taken out...

This entire area, from top to bottom, slowly began to pixelate, blur, and collapse...

However, Chen Ji will never know this.

The ferry crossing outside was deserted. Chen Ji pondered the explanation that had just flashed through his mind and waited quietly for the small boat.

Before long, a small boat drifted over from afar and picked him up.

The pen emerged from the domain and instantly returned to normal.

It kept circling around Chen Ji, wanting to take a look at the monkey doll.

"and many more."

Chen Ji used his elbow to block the pen.

"When I first received this monkey, a user manual popped into my mind."

He wasn't surprised that the monkey doll had turned into a ghost, which aligned with Chen Ji's suspicions.

After all, the three stages of "not seeing," "not hearing," and "not speaking" only officially begin after the macaque has performed the corresponding actions.

This entire domain revolves around the concept of the "Three Wise Monkeys," with the macaque clearly being the core of this concept.

However, a normal person simply cannot take that emotionless, ten-meter-tall monkey out!

[Mysterious Creature: The Three Wise Monkeys]

[Highly enhanced audiovisual functions, duration: ten minutes.]

[Note: A domain can only be used three times.]

[The cost: When one sense is amplified, the other sense will completely fail.]

"The question I want to ask is..."

Chen Ji held the pen in his hand and placed it in front of him.

"When I received it, why were there no prompts or warnings at all?"

This gives the pen a lot of room to lie, since Chen Ji has no way to verify it, so it can say whatever it wants.

The pen struggled incessantly.

Chen Ji forcibly placed it in his hand, indicating that it should give an explanation.

I can write it down, and I can also discuss it with you.

There's no need to specifically remind you, is there?

This monkey is so low-level.

[Unable to speak again]

That's why it's like this.

"is it?"

Chen Ji had some doubts.

【Uh-huh】

Also, you'd better check the monkey's mouth.

At this point, Chen Ji suddenly paused, remembering a crucial question.

[See] [Listen] [Speech]

These are three senses.

Why are a monkey's abilities only related to sight and hearing?

He immediately flipped the monkey doll over to look at its cloth-like mouth.

The monkey doll and the doll that Yun Yuan transformed into are slightly different, like two separate series.

What they have in common is that they are all poorly made.

Unlike Yun Yuan's doll, which only has a single piece of fabric, the monkey doll's mouth is woven with various colored threads to form a wide-open mouth.

Its appearance is very similar to an animated character that Chen Ji had seen before.

Big Mouth Monkey.

However, there's something wrong with the monkey doll's mouth...

It was sewn up with thread in a very creepy way!

Streaks of scarlet silk covered the monkey's large mouth.

"Is this related to the absence of the 'silent' stage?"

Chen Ji seemed to be deep in thought. Logically speaking, the three senses should complement each other, and there was no reason why one of them would be missing.

The pen wrote:

[Words spoken become law, and this is intolerable to Heaven and Earth.]

If its [words] could truly be fully utilized.

You will all die in that realm.